Book Title: Jailer
Author(s): Abhayshekharsuri, Sujata P Kapadia
Publisher: Harshadray Private Limited

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________________ and in fact, he maximizes his harassment and causes mental annoyance, one should prepare oneself to bear the harassment. If one has to tolerate it, why not endure it with calm so that it comes to an end sooner? It is true that on such occasions, equanimity is very difficult. Yet, it is not impossible. Since it is so trying and demands arduous efforts to maintain it, nature is equally generous in granting grand rewards. In such a situation, keeping your even-mindedness is the most important achievement for you. By sustaining your composure, you can achieve much more ‘nirjara’ than the ‘nirjara' and 'well-being of the soul achieved by an austerite who performs a formidable self mortification of a month long fast. You can earn an immeasurable amount of merit by maintaining equanimity which is much more than that earned by someone donating billions. Losing one's calm is not going to decrease the level of harassment, it will stay the same. Then why not retain calm and composure? The soul can be saved from discord causing 'Arta dhyana' when one realizes that miseries or distress cannot be mitigated by crying, lamenting, complaining, wishing ill of the person who made you unhappy, or by desiring to take revenge or creating a feeling of enmity. On the contrary, a situation will arise in future, whereby one will have to bear much more misery than before, for a longer period of time, because of the complaint against punishment accorded by the court of Karmasatta. There is an implied opinion that determines the punishment to be improper and this will Nirjara = Dissipation or dissociation of karmas from the soul Arta dhyana - Sorrowful meditation

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